Mission Statements and the Transformation of German Universities into Organizational Actors.

Autor/in	Kosmützky, Anna
Titel	Mission Statements and the Transformation of German Universities into Organizational Actors.
Quelle	In: Recherches sociologiques et anthropologiques, 47 (2016) 1, S. 41-66 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1782-1592; 2033-7485; 2033-7489
Schlagwörter	Selbstdarstellung; Hochschulreform; Stellungnahme; Akteur; Deutschland
Abstract	In this paper, the author analyze the ongoing processes through which German universities are transformed into organizational actors by developing and disseminating mission statements. The empirical research links the analysis of how organizations use mission statement texts to an analysis of reform discourses. Based on an analysis of higher education reform policy documents, case studies of mission statement development, and a content analysis of mission statement texts, the findings show how and why mission statements spread, became popular, and failed to fulfill their intended purposes, but nevertheless helped transform universities from organized institutions to organizational actors. Through several organization - and entity - specific adaptations of their self-descriptions and by relating to, and siphoning legitimacy from, other organizational documents, they have contributed to an interactive process that helped institutionalize universities as competitive organizational actors. (HoF/text adopted).
Erfasst von	Institut für Hochschulforschung (HoF) an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Update	2017/3